Bottles

Aluminum packaging is coming for your water as Coca-Cola’s Dasani brand takes the plunge

Coca-Cola’s Dasani brand is the latest company pitching bottled water to go the aluminum can route. It’s part of a broader rejiggering of the water brand’s plans to use mostly recycl

MIT’s human-mirroring robot nails the Bottle Cap Challenge

MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) has a robot that can mirror the actions of a human just by watching their bicep. This has a number of practical applications, inclu

How Clifford Stoll Sells Klein Bottles From Under His House

Clifford Stoll wrote one of my favorite books, The Cuckoo’s Egg, and then went a little goofy about the future of the Internet. But that’s OK because Cliff now sells Klein Bottles, “

Sleevely Tells You How Much Milk Your Wee Bairn Slurped All Day

Babies, sweet bairns or waukrife rogues alike drink from bottles. But how is a poor parent to know how much the wee ones drank, how fresh the formula was, and how much more they should imbibe before g

Electronic cap keeps winemakers honest

Researchers at the Argonne National Laboratory’s Vulnerability Assessment Team (VAT) at the Department of Energy have created a special cap for wine bottles that “breaks” when it is

My Pee Pee Bottle: $10 well spent

Do you have a kid? Does that kid pee? Pick up the My Pee Pee bottle from some insane people who feel that toilets are unsafe. February 2007, our then two-year old daughter, Sofia, contracted Rotavirus

Wow: Bottles, an RC car, and the Super Mario theme

If you’re reading this from the office and you can’t view YouTube videos, you should consider going home on your lunch break to watch this. I’ve seen some cool shit before, but this

Piper-Heidsieck limited-edition upside-down Champagne

Sure it’ll set you back $125 but look at that bottle. Yes, folks, that’s a full bottle of old Champy in an upside-down bottle with a giant cork, designed by Viktor and Rolf. It’s act

Simply Cool: Best sports bottle ever

We talk about high-speed data connections, HD video, computers, and Transformers, but sometimes our favorite gadgets are just tweaks to things we’ve been using for hundreds of years. Behold the